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Packing Nonspherical Particles - Princeton University

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Definitions<br />

A periodic packing is obtained by placing a fixed nonoverlapping<br />

configuration of N particles in each fundamental cell.<br />

Thus, the density is<br />

φ = Nv1<br />

Vol(F) .<br />

A particle is centrally symmetric if it has a center C that bisects every chord<br />

through C connecting any two boundary points.<br />

centrally symmetric centrally symmetric non-centrally symmetric<br />

2 equivalent ⊥ axes 2 inequivalent ⊥ axes<br />

. – p. 6/28

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